Exciting experiments in P1/2

This week in P1/2 we have been predicting and experimenting with fruit.  We started with thinking about what fruits might sink or float and gave reasons for our answers.  Next we looked at all of the different fruit we were going to use and made predictions about whether they would float or sink.  Then came the exciting part!   We tried putting them all in the water to see what would happen.  We were particularly surprised to see that grapes didn’t float!

Ryan was our star of the week as he even took time at home to experiment with some of the fruit and brought them in for us to try too (we hadn’t thought about trying a plum!).  Jamie also enjoyed our experiment.

Niamh has enjoyed our reading work this week, particularly completing her comprehension work.  James and Andrew have enjoyed our handwriting this week (P1 were revising the differences between b and d and P2 were continuing practising the common words).

Arran has enjoyed revisiting addition and subtraction in maths this week.

I hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend.

Lava Lamps!!!

P2 have been doing lots of science this week!

We made our own Lava Lamps!!

They looked amazing.

We made them by adding vegetable oil and water to a empty bottle, then we added a few drops of food colouring. Finally we added a fizzing tablet and by magic the gas created bubbles which rose to the surface !!!

Its so easy, you can even do it at home!!

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